Vibrating cutter for sheep shears



l A y 1,644141 Ot. 49 M. w. MCARDLE I VIBRATING CUTTER FOR SHEEP SHEARS Filed June 11. 1926 l the shearing edges formed as the edges of a.y

- ating with a fixed cutter or Averging'v teeth. sloped so Patented Oer. 4, 1927.

UNITED STATES y P MICHAEL w. Marianna,

or CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

VIBRATING CUTTER FOR SHEEP lSHIELAIRS.

Application filed June r11,

One purpose othis invention is to Vprovide a vibrating or reciprocating cutter for a sheep shear and the like which shall have thin sheetinetal cutting member, separable from the body or" the cutter and adapted to be readily detached for sharpening after vthe manner of thin bladesl ot safety razors and like implements. and which may even be discardedwhen dulled, and substituted by another, the total cost of the blade being .no more than the cost of grinding the integral cutters now commonly employed.

Another purpose of this invention is to provide a vibrating cutter suitable for being reciprocatedinthe arc of a circle, and having its cutting teeth correspondingly disposed in arcuate arrangement, for co-opercomb of a shearing tool having its comb teeth disposed in like arcuate arrangement, ybut all vsubstantially parallel., (as is usual and desirable for properly penetrating the wool and gathering it to the cutter in such manner as to be evenly sheared,-leaving the stubble o'l' uniform` length), which vibrating cutterfshall have the converging cutting edges ofradially dias to-intersect the co-operating shear edges of the parallel teeth of the comb or iXed equal angles favorable forv shearing. The invention consists in the elementsand features of construction shown and described as indicated in the claims.

In the drawings t- Figure 1 is a top plan view of a cutter adapted to serve as the vibrating cutter of a sheep shear and the like, constructed in ac-y cordance with this invention.

Figure 2 is an inverted or under side plan view of the same. f

Figure 3 is a top plan view of member and body member separated from each other. y

Figure 4 is a section at the line 4-4 on Figure 1.

Figure 5 Figure 1.

Figure is a section at the line 5-5 on 6 is a plan view of the vibrating ,cutter represented in Figure 1, the same being shown in working position on the cooperating tiXed cutter or comb of a sheep shear. for showing the angular relation of the opposite cutting edges oi the diverging teeth of the vibrating cutter to the co-operating edges of the parallel comb teeth.

cutter 'at substantially edges,

the cutting y 1:52a.. semi No. 115,195. l

In the drawings,` A represents the body or actuating member of a device adapted to serve as the vibrating orreciprocating cutterv `of a sheep sheary and the like. B represents reprethe cutting member of such a: tool. sents the fixed cutter or comb ofa sheep shear with rwhich the vibrating cutter, A, B, is adapted to -co-operate.

' The body or actuating member, A, Vis a metal stamping formed substantially as it is now customary to form the entire vibrating cutter of a sheep shear, with a peripheral downwardly projecting flange, a, such as in the customary form of the vibrating cutter of such tools has shearing edges for co-operating shearwise with the shear edgesof the comb-teeth; but in the present construction, the body member, A, is made of soft iron or steel without hardening or tempering, be-v teeth of said cuttingmember withthe comb teeth. The member, B, is made of thin sheet steel, susceptible of proper hardening and B, onto Y tempering to tit it for having effective sheary ing edges. It is made from a blank which is die cut from sheet steel, so that the peripheral B2 and B3, make right angles with the oppo-v site surfaces of the blank (though the shearing edges ofthe teeth may be ground slight- 1y, to form an upraise comprising'the parts, '61, b1, 61,fttingclosely within the downwardly projecting flange, a., of the body or actuating member, A, the marginal area, b2, left in the normal plane of the blank, being only about 10/1000 wider than the thickness of the sheet metal from which the body stamping, A, is formed; so that when the two members are assembled as seen in Figure 1, the shearing edges of the teeth of the cutting member project only just visibly from under including the edges of the teeth, B1.:

beveledy if preferred), and it is struck up.

the flange of the body or actuating member. y

With respect to ythe ksecond mentioned purpose ot' the invention it will be noted that with a fixed cutter or comb having the comb teeth disposed in arcuate arrangement, but substantially parallel to each other as to the medial lines through the points of their narrowly tapered teeth, as seen in Figure 6, and a similarly arcuate cutter having teeth tapered symmetrically about radial lines through their points, and vibrating in the arc in which the teeth are disposed, the angles of intersection of the opposite shearing edges of the laterally positioned teeth of the vibrating cutter with the respective (1o-operating edges of the Xed comb teeth, will be quite ciierent: and if the taper of the teeth of the vibrating cutter is such as to make that 'angle the most etlicient for shearing at the outer edge ot' the teeth, the angle of intersection of the inner edge with the co-operating edge of the co-operating comb tooth will be not the most etlicient. In order to make these angles of intersection otl both edges of the laterallypositioned teeth .of the vibratingl cutter as nearly as possible equally etiicient, and as etlicient as possible, the lateral teet-h,-those at opposite sides of the middle tooth of the vibrating cutter,-are made non-symmetrical about the radial lines through their points, the inner side edge being at a more acute angle to said radial line than the outer side which, as vmay be seen in Figure 6 in which the dotted line, w, indicates the position which the inner edge ot the tool would `occupy it the tool were symmetrical about a radial line through its point.

I claim l. A reciprocating cutter for a sheep shear and the like comprising a body member adapted 'for engagement by the actuating means of the tool, said body member being flanged downwardly at its periphery, forming ahollow in its under side, and a cutting member peripherally conformed to the body member and struck up within its periphery, forming an upward protrusion litting within the peripheral flange ot the body member; whereby the two members are positively engaged for actuation of the cutting `member with the body member in the reciprocatory movement, y y l Y 2. A cutting blade for asheeprshear and the like comprising a thin sheet metal cut and seating upon the narrow marginal area thereof.

3. In a sheep shear and the like, a iXed comb member having tapered teeth sub-k stantially parallel as to their medial longitudinal lines; a vibrating cutter having a plurality oi teeth symmetrically disposed" about a medial fore and aft line, each tapered to a point at the forward end, the teeth at opposite sides ot the middle being each rendered non-symmetrical by having its outer side cutting edges dill'erently in` clined to a line through its point radial with respect to the arc of vibration, the angle of the inner edge to said radial line being more acute than the corresponding angle ot the v opposite edge to said line, to cause said opposite edges to intersectv the respective l co-operating edges ot the comb teeth at suhstantially equally acute angles.

In testimony whereof, Iv have hereunto set my hand at Chicago, Ill., this 8th day of June, 1926. f

MICHAEL w. Maliante 

